Isolated individuals still wield power through words under totalitarian states

Evidence

Against this, he assured the isolated individual' that anyone who was neither appointed nor protected by any power nevertheless constituted a power, since everyone was isolated. Words were the only weapons of isolated individuals, but a powerless statement in a totalitarian state’ was `more threatening than the most awe-inspiring party rally under Wilhelm II’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1159

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer saw isolated individuals’ words as a real political power against totalitarian states. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1159

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer saw isolated individuals’ words as a real political power against totalitarian states. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1159